Foucault Studies

About The Author

Shannon Winnubst
Ohio State University United States

Shannon Winnubst is Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. Here current book project, The Biopolitics of Cool: Neoliberalism, Difference and Ethics, expands on the central theses of this essay, inquiring into the conceptual transformations of social difference and ethics underway in the social rationality of neoliberalism, especially as diagnosed by Foucault in his 1979 lectures. She is author of Queering Freedom (Indiana, 2006) and editor of Reading Bataille Now (Indiana, 2006). More recent publications include: “The Missing Link: Homo Economicus (Reading Foucault and Bataille Together),” Blackwell Companion to Foucault, eds. Chris Falzon, Timothy O’Leary and Jana Sawicki (Blackwell, forthcoming March 2013); “Temporality in Queer Theory and Continental Philosophy,” Philosophy Compass, 5 (2) 2010, 136-146; and “What if the law is written in a porno book?” Gilles Deleuze: The Intensive Reduction, ed. Constantin Boundas (Continuum Press: 2009).